This course provides students with interdisciplinary knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to meet their responsibilities as citizens of their community, state, and nation, in an increasingly interdependent and complex global society. European History will focus on the social, political, economic, cultural, and religious themes that have shaped modern Europe by focusing on the Greek, Roman and Byzantine Empires, middle Ages, renaissance, reformation, Age of Absolutism, Exploration, Colonization, Enlightenment, Scientific Revolution, Imperialism, Industrial revolution, Rise of Nationalism, World Wars, post-modern Europe, and the growth and development of the European Union.